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April 25, 2025
Google Exec Warns Of 'Shadow' Of Chrome If DOJ Wins Sale
Chrome's top executive told a D.C. federal judge Friday that the Justice Department's bid to force the sale of Google's prized web browser would cause a dramatic degradation in quality for a product that is used by over one billion people and is heavily integrated into the rest of Google.
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April 25, 2025
Hearst Wins Toss Of VPPA Suit Over News App Data Sharing
Hearst Television is done with a lawsuit that accused it of intentionally sharing the personal information of its app's users with Google's DoubleClick and another third party, a Massachusetts federal judge has declared after finding Hearst didn't violate a law against sharing identifiable information.
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April 25, 2025
Thomson Reuters Tells 3rd Circ. AI Fair Use Appeal Is Too Early
Thomson Reuters on Thursday urged the Third Circuit to reject tech startup Ross Intelligence's bid for a quick appeal focusing on two key questions from a trial court decision concluding it infringed the Westlaw platform to create an artificial intelligence-backed competing legal research tool.
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April 25, 2025
Photo Studio Urges Justices To Reject 'Discovery Rule' Appeal
A photography studio urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to reject an appeal asking for review of the so-called discovery rule, a judicially created doctrine that allows copyright claims outside the statute of limitations, arguing that the justices already rejected a similar petition last term.
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April 25, 2025
AI Fueling Crypto Fraud And Other Cybercrimes, Experts Say
The "arms race" in artificial intelligence is simultaneously supercharging cybercrime and efforts to combat it, experts from BigLaw, the U.S. Department of Justice and the tech industry agreed at a panel discussion Thursday, saying bad actors are using machine learning tools to improve crypto scams and other frauds.
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April 25, 2025
Roblox, Discord Enabled Fla. Minor's Exploitation, Suit Says
A Florida minor who was sexually exploited on the platforms Roblox and Discord has sued both companies in California, claiming they fail to protect vulnerable users.
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April 25, 2025
'Yellowjackets' Makers Swat Away Suit Alleging 'Eden' Copy
The similarities between the TV show "Yellowjackets" and the 2015 film "Eden" are not substantial enough to support a copyright infringement claim, a California federal judge ruled Friday, tossing the filmmaker's suit against Showtime, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and the makers of the show.
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April 25, 2025
DOJ Says Journalists Must Answer Subpoenas
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has revoked the Biden administration's policy preventing the U.S. Department of Justice from seeking records and compelling testimony from journalists in order to crack down on leaks, according to a memo issued Friday and obtained by Law360.
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April 25, 2025
Telecom Org. Demands FCC Rethink Copper Retirement
A group made up of former FCC officials and telecom industry experts is hopping mad about the Federal Communications Commission's move to retire copper lines and move toward newer technology, calling it an "embarrassment of monumental proportions."
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April 25, 2025
Live Nation Investors Get 1st OK For $20M Eras Tour-Tied Deal
Event ticketing giant Live Nation and its shareholders on Friday secured a California federal judge's initial green light for their proposed $20 million deal to end proposed class action claims alleging the company misled shareholders in the face of anticompetitive allegations involving its Ticketmaster subsidiary following its missteps selling tickets for pop star Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
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April 25, 2025
Google Ad Tech Judge Wants To Get Moving On Remedies
The Virginia federal judge overseeing the government's ad tech monopolization case against Google issued an order on Friday calling for a hearing over her concerns about the length of time the sides are requesting to prepare for a trial to determine potential remedies.
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April 25, 2025
Low-Power Stations Seek To Avoid Next-Gen TV Mandate
Low-power TV broadcasters are urging the Federal Communications Commission not to force stations like theirs to transition to "NextGen TV," calling the consumer uptake of NextGen-enabled televisions "laughable" and saying advancements are still being made in standard HDTV technology.
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April 25, 2025
​​​​​​​50 Cent Says Horror Film Using His Name Without Permission
Rapper 50 Cent filed a trademark infringement suit against Hollywood producer Ryan Kavanaugh in California federal court Thursday to stop the release of a horror movie that he alleged used his name, likeness and intellectual property to promote it, without a finalized agreement in place.
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April 25, 2025
Record Cos. Say Houston Rapper Can't Support 'Still Tippin'' Suit
A pair of record companies accused of ripping off the unofficial Houston anthem "Still Tippin'" urged a federal court Friday to dismiss the lawsuit, writing that the rapper behind the song hasn't alleged a "plausible claim."
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April 25, 2025
Off The Bench: NIL Deal Drama, Oakley v. MSG, Transfer Rules
In this week's Off The Bench, the landmark $2.78 billion settlement to compensate college athletes hits a snag, a former New York Knick's assault case against Madison Square Garden may be on shaky ground, and Vanderbilt University's quarterback fights to protect his successful challenge against the NCAA's eligibility rules.
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April 25, 2025
Broadcasters Oppose FCC Adding New Local Notice Regs
Broadcasters said they don't like the idea of new local notice requirements for some types of new stations as part of a Federal Communications Commission plan to otherwise cut down on rules covering the industry that it believes are no longer needed.
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April 25, 2025
Defunct Media Co. To Pay $4.5M In NY WARN Act Case
Former digital media startup The Messenger has agreed to pay $4.5 million to a class of 275 workers who claimed in New York federal court that the company didn't give them enough notice about its layoffs and shutdown, the parties said on Friday.
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April 25, 2025
EU Probing Universal Music's $775M Deal For Downtown
European enforcers are reviewing a planned deal for Universal Music Group to buy Downtown Music Holdings for $775 million, after receiving a referral from competition authorities in Austria and the Netherlands.
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April 25, 2025
Trump Pressed To Roll Back Ligado Network Order
A broad collection of navigation, transportation, weather and agricultural interest groups are urging President Donald Trump and Congress to roll back the Federal Communications Commission's controversial Ligado order, arguing that the company's proposed terrestrial mobile service would cause harmful interference to GPS, satellite communications and weather forecasting services.
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April 25, 2025
House Republicans Seek Info On DeepSeek Ties To CCP
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are pressing Chinese AI company DeepSeek for information on their data practices and relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.
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April 25, 2025
Trump Seeks $53K Fee Award In Central Park 5 Suit
President Donald Trump says his attorneys from Dhillon Law Group Inc. are owed more than $53,000 in attorney's fees and costs from the Central Park Five after a Pennsylvania federal judge tossed most of the charges from their suit earlier this month.
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April 25, 2025
Ex-FCC Chair Back At HQ To Lobby For Mobile Biz
A former chief of the Federal Communications Commission made a cameo appearance at the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters in his new role as top lobbyist for the mobile services industry, calling for more spectrum to feed boundless growth in the wireless business.
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April 24, 2025
DC Comics Gets Judge To Toss Superman IP Suit
A New York federal judge on Thursday tossed a copyright infringement suit that a nephew of late Superman co-creator Joseph Shuster lodged against DC Comics on behalf of his uncle's estate ahead of a July film release on the iconic superhero, saying the court lacked jurisdiction over the case.
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April 24, 2025
PCMag, Mashable Publisher Latest To Sue OpenAI Over IP
Ziff Davis, the publisher behind digital publications like PCMag, Mashable and Everyday Health, on Thursday became the latest media company to launch a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of ripping off copyrighted content to train its artificial intelligence products.
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April 24, 2025
House Panel 'Committed' To Passing Privacy Law, Staffer Says
A House Energy and Commerce Committee staff member had a message Thursday for those wondering if Congress would finally overcome the hurdles that have long stymied efforts to enact a federal comprehensive consumer data privacy law: "This time is different."
Expert Analysis
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Open Questions In Unsettled Geofence Warrant Landscape
The Fourth and Fifth Circuits recently reached radically divergent conclusions about the constitutionality of geofence warrants, creating an uncertain landscape in which defendants should assert and preserve the full range of conventional Fourth Amendment challenges, says Charles Fowler at McKool Smith.
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A Look At 5 States' New Data Privacy Laws
With new data privacy laws in Utah, Florida, Texas, Oregon and Montana recently in effect or coming into force this year, state-level enforcement of data privacy creates significant challenges and risks for how businesses interact with employees and consumers, and for companies that provide and use technologies in multiple jurisdictions, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys
Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.
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Licensing And Protections For Voice Actors In The Age Of AI
While two recently enacted California laws and other recent state and federal legislation largely focus on protecting actors and musicians from the unauthorized use of their digital likenesses by generative artificial intelligence systems, the lesser-known community of professional voice actors also stands to benefit, says attorney Scott Mortman.
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2 High Court Securities Cases Could Clarify Pleading Rules
In granting certiorari in a pair of securities fraud cases against Facebook and Nvidia, respectively, the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled its intention to align interpretations of the heightened pleading standard under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act amid its uneven application among the circuit courts, say attorneys at V&E.
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Series
Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.
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Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs
The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.
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Unpacking Nazi-Era Art Restitution Cases Under HEAR Act
Since the enactment of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act in 2016, courts, commentators and litigants have struggled to delineate the extent to which time-based arguments remain relevant to resolving Nazi-era restitution claims, but a decision in Bennigson v. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation provides valuable clarity on this issue, say attorneys at Patterson Belknap.
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Insurance Likely Kept Swift Out Of The Woods After Vienna
Financial losses Taylor Swift incurred from the cancellation of three concerts in Vienna in August will likely be covered by insurance policies, considering how the facts of the situation differ from those of the Foo Fighters' 2015 insurance dispute over event cancellation and terrorism coverage, say attorneys at Anderson Kill.
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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What Pennsylvania Can Expect From Anti-SLAPP Law
Pennsylvania's anti-SLAPP law is an important step in protecting speech on matters of public concern against retaliatory claims, and is buttressed by a robust remedy for violations as well as procedural requirements that lawyers must follow to take advantage of its application in practice, says Thomas Wilkinson at Cozen O'Connor.
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Opinion
AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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Antitrust Issues To Watch Amid Google Ad Tech Trial
Regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Department of Justice's advertising technology antitrust suit against Google in Virginia federal court, matters ranging from market definition to unified pricing will likely have far-reaching implications for the digital advertising industry, competition and innovation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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What To Know About Latest Calif. Auto-Renewal Law Update
While businesses have about nine months to prepare before the recently passed amendment to California's automatic renewal law takes effect, it’s not too early to begin working on compliance efforts, including sign-up flow reviews, record retention updates and marketing language revisions, say Gonzalo Mon and Beth Chun at Kelley Drye.
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Taking Stock Of FCC's New Spectrum Rule For Drones
While an order recently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission is intended to provide drones with rapid access to a limited amount of spectrum in the 5030-5091 megahertz band, the commission envisions an incremental approach to full usage that will play out over the course of the coming months and years, say attorneys at Wiley.